Guidelines for Laboratory Quality Managers

1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-3-031-11726-8
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, Band 14, 160 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 277 g

Reihe: Integrating Food Science and Engineering Knowledge Into the Food Chain

This useful and extensive set of guidelines is designed to assist food control laboratories in gaining accreditation from an internationally recognized external body, providing all of the necessary information and practices in an easy-to-read, step-by-step fashion.  Authored by an experienced consultant for laboratory accreditation in many different countries, with this text food control lab owners now have all of the up-to-date information they need to gain accreditation in a single source. 
Guidelines for Laboratory Quality Managers covers the essentials for quality management in the food control laboratory, from testing processes to current quality management systems. The ISO standards for accreditation are extensively explored, including managerial requirements, organizational aspects, complaint handling procedures, internal audits, and sampling. An entire section is dedicated to the implementation of managerial and technicalrequirements from quality control to program monitoring and evaluation. Analysis selection, preparation, and validation is covered extensively, and an entire section is dedicated to basic statistics from data presentation to distribution. Each section comes with helpful tips for lab managers plus definitions and terms. 

Comprehensive, easy-to-use and up-to-date, Guidelines for Laboratory Quality Managers is the guide for accreditation for food control laboratories.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mannino, Saverio

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Organische Chemie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär Ökotrophologie (Ernährungs- und Haushaltswissenschaften)
• Technische Wissenschaften Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie Lebensmitteltechnologie und Getränketechnologie
• Naturwissenschaften Chemie Analytische Chemie Umweltchemie, Lebensmittelchemie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Laboratory management and ISO 17025:2017.- Essential for Quality management in testing laboratories.- Preparing for analysis: the analytical method.- Statistics for the Quality Control Laboratory.- Uncertainty measurement.- Control Charts and Process capability.- Risk Management.

Über Autor(innen)

Saverio Mannino is a former professor of Food Quality Control at the University of Milan in Milan, Italy. Author of about 150 publication concerning food analysis, at present international consultant and member of the Accreditation Committee of the Department of Testing Laboratories of Accredia ( the Italian Laboratory Accreditation Body) member of the European co-operation for Accreditation.